Aladin Jamaleddin, 25, was shot and killed on July 21, 2019, in Evergreen Park, Illinois. The shooting happened about 7:15 p.m. in the 9100 block of South St. Louis Avenue. Officers found Jamaleddin on the ground, bleeding from his face; he was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn and pronounced dead at 7:52 p.m. An autopsy determined the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head.

Investigators linked the killing to a possible Xanax transaction. Jamaleddin had been communicating by calls and texts about a Xanax sale. Jamaleddin’s mother confronted the shooter afterward; the suspect allegedly pointed a gun at her and fled in a Toyota Rav4 driven by a woman.

Police located that Rav4 the next day; the female driver identified Hernandez as the shooter and he was brought in for questioning. Initial first-degree murder charges were not approved while authorities sought Jamaleddin’s phone records. A warrant was later issued charging Hernandez with first-degree murder and armed robbery; he was arrested on his seventeenth birthday and detained without bail. Anyone with information about Jamaleddin, the vehicle, or the transaction is asked to come forward.